Google Capital Leads $100 Million Cybersecurity Investment

Google Capital made a big bet on a cybersecurity company that names hacker groups after pandas and kittens.

The Google unit led a $100 million investment in Crowdstrike, an Irvine, Calif., firm with deep ties to Washington. Its head of investigations, Shawn Henry, is the former top computer-crimes official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Crowdstrike’s D.C.-based chief technology officer, Dmitri Alperovitch, has a long history of calling out foreign hacker groups.